skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deleted my social media almost ten years ago and I feel like I have a stronger social network now than I had before. The key thing I think I may have done differently is that I got involved in things that provided opportunities to be engaged with people.

For example; I joined my local Masonic lodge and started doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Between those two things alone I find I have regular enough interactions with a variety of different people that I naturally find out about, and am invited to events and activities that more than make up for the loss of social media.

I'm not suggesting everyone join a Masonic lodge (obviously) or take up Jiu-Jitsu. There are a great number of things everyone can do that gets them around other people in a way that is natural and fulfilling.

Also--and this, I find, is critical--all my old friends are still friends and they call or email or text me and I them. Anyone who claimed to be my friend but couldn't be bothered to get in touch with me after I dropped social media was never a very good friend to begin with.
> Personally, I dislike IKEA for registering as a non-profit, when they're very clearly not.

They're clearly not a charity. But there are TONS of tax-sheltered businesses that aren't charities.

To me, it's morally equivalent to eg churches that use tax-free money to buy and operate super nice concert venues. Or any other non-profit that uses pre-tax money to pay salaries.

IMO, Ikea > Churches.

> or talk to anyone who's ever received a DARPA / NSF / etc. grant

Y Combinator recently published an article about how to bootstrap a biotech startup on a small seed round, and they included an example company. Step Zero was "get NSF/NIH grants and hire a student/post-doc at a university". Incidentally also the Step Zero for lots of tech companies in the 80s, 90s, and even today.
I'd be happy to discuss substance but your comment brings up no actual points, only ad hominem.
How do we prevent fraud? Is there a way to change the incentives? Statistical analysis of results to detect bogus numbers? Only cite research that has been independently replicated and apply a "provisional" label to the first results? Then only cite the duplicating lab and not the first one, so the incentive is there for doing the grunt work?
Read the news - what you are describing didn't happen.

Look at Melvin - they are trying to convince the market they are still solvent.

Citron closed their shorts at a huge loss.

This really is a case of "seasoned professionals" getting slaughtered on awful trades, and they didn't appear to have a safety net set up.

edit: people seem to think I am cheerleading WSB...far from it, someone there will also get slaughtered by being the last fool to walk in on a risky trade. Trading is merciless, caveat emptor!

edit2: the article above does NOT refute my claims. Melvin took a $2 billion emergency infusion from Citadel. You don't do that if you safely closed your trades without hazard. Sorry I'm going to trust Bloomberg over "nope-its-lily"
Post-scarcity societies aren't well explored in fiction partly because they are described through the lens of exclusively physical property. The replicators in Star Trek had this problem. People were shown wanting for nothing and having no wages, because they could replicate stuff.

The problem is that even today a huge part of the economy is not material production but services of some form, many of which can't be supplied infinitely no matter how fancy your tech gets. If you want an hour of time to get advice advice from the world's best investor, then short of that man choosing to upload his brain into a massively sharded AI or something, his time is scarce and no amount of tech will work around that.

And a lot of what capitalism allocates today is even less physical than that: attention and social status. Instagram sometimes feels like an experimental post-scarcity society in which millions of people with abundant material wealth spend their time competing over social status and influence.

Fundamentally even in a post-scarcity society there will always be competition for the influence of your ideas, other people's time/attention and of course power over those people. This is why the concept that communism happens with sufficiently advanced technology doesn't make sense to me.
Effectively Fuzzing the IPC Layer in Firefox
> It's common where I am to get spam phone calls that spoof Caller ID to match the area code and first 3 digits of your own number, to appear "local" and make you think it might be someone you know.

I see this technique very frequently too - I have to wonder if this technique work to get people to answer!? Personally if I see a call from a 415 number that isn't already saved in my contacts list, I hang up and block it immediately because the chance it is spam is so high!
I think vetos only work when everyone is being a team player with them. Sure there are going to be cases where a candidate does something particularly offensive that might warrant an actual veto, but it's almost always better if the team come to a consensus together based on everyone's input.
They don't break out specifically cpus but seems that is well the lions share

https://businessquant.com/intel-revenue-by-segment
That's disagreement, not enmity. Conflating the two is hysteria.
Would you consider a line in the plane to have holes? Its complement is disconnected. The complement of a solid torus in R^3 is not disconnected, yet it has holes in the sense discussed here. Moreover, this concept of holes is independent of a ambient set.
Just in case: Sciter (https://sciter.com) and Sciter.JS (https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk) allow to build native UI applications with HTML/CSS extended by native languages (C, C++, Rust, Go, etc.)
Older people who lived in a world of more resources per person and better craftsmen are used to high quality furniture. That luxury isn't really available at the moment, which is a shame, but IKEA have helped a lot of people.
I doubt this is the end. It still has a lot of room to run, probably. The shorts haven't covered, they've doubled down.
It's actually more dangerous if they don't get burned. Then they think they can get away with their gamble again, but they put even more money in next time.
... yes, any system can be corrupted. We have to look at good faith use of a system to properly evaluate it in a cost benefit analysis. Then, harden it against attack.

Also, it's "freedom of speech", not "freedom of anonymous speech". The essential part of the "My freedom to swing my fist ends at your nose." is that the fist and the nose are connected to actual people. Feel free to punch away at twitter bot farms. They're not people.
Wow. The consumption of Optimizely is complete. It's as if Episerver is wearing the corpse of Optimizely like a skin suit.
I maintain accounts on Robinhood, TD, and Interactive Brokers.

Typically, Robinhood is always down at market open (even on low volume days).

On high volume days, IB has been down several times.

However, the thinkorswim platform on TD is great and I've yet to encounter downtime.
They only released it yesterday:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3156

Still nothing on Centos. Perhaps just another reason to not trust Redhat.
Thanks for the feedback @XCSme

Yes you are right-ideas are easiest to find. But finding ideas for which there is a demand & people are actually willing to pay for- is quiet difficult & iterative process.

My intention to build the product was to help people filter out already viable & successful products in their niche.And then just beat them in terms of better performance, pricing or by focusing on a particular feature or a user-segment. This will give the makers an unfair advantage to beat the competition out there.

"Good artists copy, great artists steal" - a quote Jobs stole from Picasso.

I agree that the placing & packaging of my product doesn't make it clear.Coming from Back-end Engineer background, this is quiet a challenge for me. Working on it for a re-launch :)
check this out, https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable. Uses binlog a reader to call postgres triggers, upon which you can build 2 way sync realtime.
Is anyone even questioning this any more in 2021?
As I see, many of them are aware of this and doing mainly for fun/revenge/etc and ready to lose the 'investment'. Basically a special kind of bubble scheme to deliberately pushing an actor to the top of it to maximalize it's loss. Not sure if there was anything like this in the past. Interesting story.
In magazines the original intent was to catch the attention of people scanning through an issue, just flipping through - they might turn a page and suddenly see a big quote in large text that caches their interest, and so they will stop and read the article. I admit I don't know how useful it is on a website and I thought a bit about whether to include it - ultimately I left it becuse it felt "magazine-y" and part of the goal was for the site to feel more like a magazine, with issues, and less like a blog that scrolls endlessly. But I admit it is mostly an affectation that may not serve any real purpose.

Thanks for reading btw!
Egging on reddit certainly doesn't help. I agree with the notion of shorting game stop but don't make a big fuss about it.
Most of the masks people are wearing are also nowhere near 95% effective - cloth masks are more like 70%. Helpful, yes! Solid protection? Far from it.

COVID-19 had a measured replication rate before measures were taken in NYC of ~ 6. Measles is ~ 11 (and the most infectious known airborne virus). New variants are supposed to be between 50-70% more infectious than 'baseline' COVID, though it isn't clear how solid that data is, or how exactly it is being computed.

That could put it at a 'with no social changes/baseline behaviour in manhattan' at a replication rate of ~9 to ~10. Which is damn close to measles.

Lockdowns, social distancing, face masks will reduce this quite a bit in reality (and have - the measured R value is in the 1.1-1.2ish range in most areas now) - but increases in infectivity will require stepping up countermeasures to contain it, or a massive rollout in vaccines to stamp it out before a variant that the vaccine doesn't prevent against exists.
Phillip Morris didn't operate a sophisticated propaganda machine capable of steering national opinion in its own favor and indeed directing the course of democracy (if we are to believe that foreign actors can side-channel attack Twitter's algos to influence elections, then it naturally follows that Twitter can influence elections with direct control over its algorithms). I don't mean this in a contrarian sense (I agree with you), moreso just venting my pessimism that things will change.
> There was a story yesterday (I'm not sure of its validity) that Citadel has paid for advance knowledge for Robin Hood stock transactions

That's a complete distortion of what's actually happening. If this were actually happening and people knew about it there would be absolute outrage.

The truth is that Citadel is one of a few firms that pay Robinhood for the option to take the other side of trades. It's pretty innocuous but people get upset about it and turn it into "Citadel get advance knowledge of Robinhood trades".

Citadel is in the business of making markets. Instead of taking a position on a stock, they just happily take the other side of most trades. They make their money by offering slightly below the "true" market price and in exchange they provide liquidity to the market so that you can sell your stock pretty much whenever you want. The idea is that most trades are pretty random and for each trade on one side you have a trade on the other side that balances it out and Citadel keeps the difference between the "true" price and what they pay/sell at.

The problem is that sometimes lots of stock will be sold for a good reason (imagine someone finds out that there's an accounting fraud at some company). In this case, Citadel loses money because the trades don't balance out and the stock just goes down.

From Citadel's perspective, traders on Robinhood are much more likely to be random people with no extra info (retail investors) and so they're willing to pay Robinhood to route the orders to them because it reduces the risk of adverse selection. In exchange, Citadel has to give a price that's at least equal to the best price in the market or else they're not allowed to fulfill the order.
ah, I see it. I had checked only "ergonomic" (unchecking all the rest). Neat resource!
I say good! I am tired of hearing about the “historic” space program. It is a reminder of what we have not achieved in the decades since then. It’s time to focus on what will be done, not what was done
For starters:

[1] https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data

[2] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/10/12/policing/

And [1] is in ostensibly "liberal" New York city.
In my opinion, a midwife is essential for navigating birth in our medicalized system. Think of it as going to court -- you don't want to be representing yourself. A midwife is not only helpful support for you, but they've seen all the various problems and know how to address them... or coax the nurse/doctor into doing the right thing.

Edit: responder used the correct word, "doula" not "midwife"; thank you.
Yes, it's just like all high level studies trying to make broad statements about human behavior or any other complex human system, like nutrition or economics. The reason there is so much contradiction is that we can't deal with the complex relationships between variables or the unknown unknowns. The only reason medicine is able to do decent studies is because they can tightly control things in RCTs. Correlational/observational studies are almost never good enough to make strong statements about anything.
No kidding. I feel like this happens a lot. It is nice to have both individual and team goals and hopefully they also align in a few ways.
> why don't institutional players use this strategy?

They do. It is a very high risk endeavor though and missing the mark could lead to bankruptcy and success could mean action from the SEC. But catching someone in a short squeeze is pretty damn profitable.

Part of the success here probably has to do with underestimating the influence of wsb. This isn't the first time they've taken down short sellers (Telsa), but it's the most high profile time.
The poster of this "Show HN" seems to have zero involvement with the development of berty.

I've been eagerly awaiting the release of berty for a few months now, but they have not made public the app yet. They have a closed beta, for a few months. And their build process for the android app is complex.

While berty is extremely interesting tech, I don't think it's quite ready to be on Hacker News yet.
Wrong on every count, bucko. Not young, not white, no making it up.
I also wonder how they controlled for content vs. medium.

The news of the world has been pretty bad all around, getting worse and worse over the past decade. I can't help but wonder if being online plugs someone more deeply into that news, and the actual cause of the damage to one's mental health is more exposure to multi-sourced narratives unfiltered by the editorial voice often employed by traditional news media.

What if these young people are showing signs of mental trauma because mental trauma is a predictable reaction to being informed about the state of the world, and being more online leaves one more informed?
Potentially incentivizes rushing someone into the company because you'll be cut a check. Not because that person is going to be a great fit.
> _Note: A tree is useful and carbon negative only if it is growing a tree in forest that has stopped growing is mostly useless for offsetting carbon,_

Don't trees grow till they die?
A little note: I'm not the blog post's author but I've contacted Jon to reply to questions in the comments.
> These companies are contractually obligated to buy the stock at whatever price it's at in the future

Normally you set a limit when you short. You don’t agree to pay an unlimited amount of money.
It is heartsickening that this is the result of current social media implementation. As others have mentioned, it is largely caused by this attention economy (as I've heard Tristan Harris of https://www.humanetech.com/ call it) - where the apps most used today are made to be addictive and consume our attention as much as possible.

I have been working on a more intimate, less addictive, social media and messaging application that I hope can be part of a trend of new apps that help solve this problem. I believe one of the features in current apps that makes them so addictive, for teens especially, is the endless stream of content they have access to - they can view hours and hours of videos from celebrities they don't personally know, content creators they have never met, brands, etc. If we can scale back the endless stream of content (which leads to doom-scrolling), that might be one approach to helping limit screen time without sacrificing the meaningful connection to friends and family that social media enables.
I think there is value in getting feedback from the team, but ultimately it should be the hiring managers decision (modulo input from HR to make sure that people aren't introducing discriminatory practices).

In a previous role we followed this, and for most hires we waited until we found a candidate that had the right skills and the right fit, however there was one prominent candidate that several folks on the team rejected.

This candidate didn't interview particularly well with me personally, but had stellar technical interviews with two people on the team, and came with impeccable references from two folks in the team she would be working with. Because of that I circled back with the folks who rejected her, and in chatting with them, discovered they felt she wasn't a good fit for the team, but would be able to do the work. I spoke to my HR folks, and my own manager, and we agreed to overrule the team and hire her.

Straight up, best decision on hiring I have ever made.
hello Matt, you might be interested in this: uses binlog to provide 2 way sync to postgres including hard delete detection, using postgres triggers.
https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable
Exactly! /r/wallstreetbets are also trading against each other, without mercy! Not sure why people think that sub is some sort of group trading account...

But, chances are, a lot of them will make incredible gains by betting on the misery of hedge funds who themselves bet on misery. No tears shed for the hedge funds or the account holders who are now basically zero'd out. Imagine having your life savings in one of these funds...in the biggest bubble in history, your account went to ZERO!
In our case, my kid (age 4) would specify my wife as her primary parent anyway, so I can see why we got to where we are. For me it’s not just ignorant sexism, my daughter just prefers my wife (likely because I cannot sit through another viewing of Frozen 2).
I am not sure how guaranteed the gains are...basically there is a common enemy right now in the form of short sellers. Once they're decimated (ie forced to buy shares at higher prices than they anticipated), I suspect a good deal of novice traders are going to still be holding shares at elevated prices. At that point they're basically holding shares worth very little compared to what they likely paid for them.

The same hoard trading phenomenon seems to be happening with Blackberry. A number of insiders have already dumped shares, meaning anyone buying those shares isn't buying shares from a short seller, they're buying from people who recognize the price is outrageous compared to business fundamentals.

Bottom line, short sellers are definitely going to suffer, but so are a lot of robbinhood kiddies.
Was at an event where someone asked the industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger (a very colorful dresser) about the color of the early Macs: why beige?

“Because of dust”
It might make more sense to say that social media usage is just one large aspect of a child- like the presence or lack of presence of supportive adult figures, the presence or lack of presence of food security, good education, physical safety, etc.

I'm sure a teenager who runs exclusively in cutting or pro-anorexia social circles online is a much different teenager to one who primarily uses the internet to keep up to date on horse shows.
While true that the current situation is pretty far detached from the fundamentals, it's not 100% speculative.
GameStop just named Ryan Cohen and 2 other execs from Chewy on the board after Ryan pitched an e-commerce based strategy similar to what they did with Chewy. People have some faith in that, certainly enough to believe that the shorts are misplaced.
This thread started with:

> And one might think liberals, putting liberty above order, would be aghast at silencing opponents to maintain order, and yet here we are.

You aren't liberal, that's OK, and Twitter isn't a liberal platform, and definitely has a political bias towards the progressive left.

I'd rather make decisions for myself than let Twitter tell me what is or isn't misinformation.

> Sidenote: The Federalist itself got its account banned from twitter for spreading covid misinformation.

Thanks for proving my point
Why wouldn't they double down? Fundamentally, Gamestop isn't a thirty billion dollar company. The odds that retail investors stay greedy long enough to force the current shorts to cover are not very high, IMO. Some of these redditors are going to want to cash in their gains, and when that happens I guess it's going to collapse very quickly.

I don't buy individual stocks and even I'm tempted to get in on the short side right now. Seems like an easy way to turn $1k into $10k. Take my wife out for a nice dinner or something.
As long as there are no known issues and everyone is healthy, a home birth is probably safe. A hospital is usually safe too but definitely more expensive.
Rebekah Mercer Raised Specter of “Armed Conflict” in 2019 Book
Martin Shkreli famously did this with a tweet. So did Phil Falcone. One is in prison (for unrelated securities fraud) and the other was permanently barred from the investment industry by the SEC for securities fraud and market manipulation. Falcone was motivated by equal parts profit and revenge, though, so his case was particularly egregious.

Where is the line is between market manipulation and just... the market? I couldn't tell you. One or a few people working in coordination to create a short squeeze and they're definitely going to get a call from the SEC. A few thousand Redditors working in coordination to create a short squeeze? I guess we'll find out what the SEC thinks.
Babies are 2x as likely to die in a home birth as in a hospital.

It's trendy and perhaps more comfortable/convenient, but it massively amplifies the risk.
At my university (undergrad) we had two professors in the same department who were married and shared the same last name. I had a course they taught together and they told us to call them Mrs. Dr. ___ and Mr. Dr. ___. I thought it was an elegant solution and I appreciated being told what they preferred to be called.
Why? Why would a harmless feature that the vast majority of people want have to have its own "prominent" setting. I'd argue the exact opposite - that making it prominent would lead people to disable it without knowing the consequences and then think their browser is broken: "Oh, I don't want sites to access my clipboard, that sounds scary", then two months later "this browser sucks! When I copy my selection from Google Docs it strips all formatting! It works in Chrome, Firefox sucks!"

Anyways, this is far more time than I'm willing to spend talking to someone who thinks their PoV is the only correct one (I just now recognize your username from a few other threads under this post). Cheeers!